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...credit, in this form or a similar one, has passed the Senate three times, but has never come to a vote on the House floor. The Senate Committee on Finance recently passed this version of tax credit as an amendment to the wool tariff bill, and it awaits scheduling for the Senate floor. The student aid bill has been reported out of the Human Resources Committee, and as soon as the debate on the Panama Canal treaty is finished--maybe in a week or two--the student aid bill will race the tax credit to the Senate, with each side...
...credits. Growing support in the House may force the power-wielders to permit a vote on the issue although some Congressional aides say the House would prefer to deal with the tax credit as part of a big, upcoming tax bill rather than as an unrelated rider to the wool tariff bill. The student aid package passed out of the House Committee on Education and Labor last week, and an aide for the committee said she expects a vote in the House next week...
Helen Elphick stands in the rain at the edge of a 6-ft. pile of cow dung, feeding two grotesque pigs, both part wild boar. Inside the smoky communal hut, couples in hides and rough wool garments squat around the fire, spit-roasting a heavy pork leg and preparing sausages and black pudding made from skin, offal and gut. John Rossetti sheds his clothes, steps into a wood tub and begins to scrub off five days' grime with clay and hot water. John Rockcliff enters through the goatskin door, carrying a rat he has caught. It will...
...Celtic crafts and culture. One couple, with the commune's only children, three boys, braved it for much of the year but quit the experiment several months ago. The others have stayed on, raising crops and livestock, making pottery, cooking Iron Age food and spinning and weaving wool sheared from their own sheep...
...bamboo poles, biodegradable tees, and ammonium chloride balls allow the winter golfer to frolic in the snow in relative comfort. Such devices, of course, might alarm golfing traditionalists. Died in the wool golfers would be likely to concur with the judgment of "Firey," the legendary Musselburgh caddie, who when the first golf bag was introduced in Scotland in 1888 remarked that it was "nae gowf...